vade the Dominican Republic, and has made a couple f small tries, but no one has reported "aggression" there in the past few weeks. To cope with this dif- ficulty, Averell Harriman, currently touring South America as an explicator of American policy, has been using the phrase "internal aggression." M ean- while, Under-Secretary Mann has been making some notable contributions. He has eXplained that the strictures against aggression and intervention in the United Nations and O.A.S. charters are outmoded, because they were drafted "at a time when people were thinking about aggression in terms of nineteenth-century armies marching across frontiers." 'These happen to he exactly the terms in which we arc being urged to think about Vietnam. \Vhile the President and others try to widen the Sino-Soviet split, Mann seems to be trying to heal it. He has attributed ter- rorism in Latin America to "what you might call the extreme left. . . which takes its orders from the Sino-Soviet military bloc, which includes Cuba." Such people, he has said, "arc instru- ments of Sino-Soviet military power, as was demonstrated in the [Cuban 1 mis- sile crisis." The Soviet Union, China, and Cuba had three different views of the 1962 missile crisis, which happened to be one affair that rank-and-file ter- rorists had nothing whatever to do with. The latest rationale of our Vietnamese policy can be used to cut the ground from under the administration's defense of its intervention in the Dominican Republic, and if Under-Secretary Mann is right, we are wasting our time in both places, since the roots of the trouble are to be found in Moscow, Peking, and Cuba. The air is badly in need of clearing. -RICHARD H. ROVERE . OUR FORGETFUL MENTORS [From "How to T-Vrite and Speak Effec- tive English," by Edward Frank Allen] Perfect is an adjective that should not be compared. If anything is perfect, it is finished, complete. AVOID saying more perfect or most perfect. The same warn- ing applies to other adjectives of which there cannot, logically, be any variable degree. Circular is one. If a thing is circular, it is in the shape of a circle, and cannot be more or less so. See unique. -Page 61. It has been the purpose of this chapter to simplify, rationalize, and humanize the subjects of capitalization and punctuation. Mere memorization of rules is not the aim of this chapter, which has tried to give you a foundation on which you may build a more perfect knowledge and use of these two devices. -Page 208. 213 mamt td/ - The princess of the courts . . . Adelaide, from our TENNIS WHITES COLLECTION regally cool and crisp in all cotton birdseye pique with Arnel!!> triacetate jersey panties and its own cotton terry headband. Sizes 6 to 18. About $15. .. :' it r"'j, , :', i/ 41 -}j , ' ' " -@ f .' :. \ N' '{Þ -+- j, '.;. I \. ., ij... t i 4\! .k / ;"', t // ! I , I ("" 4 ' f: , - '! f; 6 t , , !. \ / ...:.'" / /Í ', i à ( .....,, ,<-.t \J "r : J "-"...: '" / . . .) . it, IV . ,. , " " . :1r, .':;P';::' ,''1&.... ;.l1li.;;;1 . \\!\ m ( /il "' : " I >>J..., I I t.", Æ m ", \,. i', '. ; ."l'K: , , ..,. "."Ü.." ..",', ,. LOOMTOGS INC. 1 1407 BROADWAY 1 NEW YORK 10018 -"',. " f. At Bloomingdale's New York; Jordan Marsh, Boston; Famous-Barr, St. Louis; Julius Garfinckel, Washington, D.C.; and all their branches. . , ask for Loomtogs at your favorite store. SUBSCRIPTION ORDE.R FORM THE NEW YORKER 25 WES T 4.3RD S TREE T NE W YORK, N. Y. 100.36 . Please enter my subscription to The Neu; Yorker, payment for which is enclosed. DONE YEAR-$8 o TWO YEARS-$13.50 (Extra postage outside U.S. and its possessions: Canada, Latin America and Spain-$1.00 per year; Other joreign-$3.00 per year.) NAME ADDRESS (Please include ZIP code number)